Senior Mechatronics EngineerNew

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. Omen is Anduril’s hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs the endurance, payload, and mission flexibility of much larger airplanes into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform.

What you'll do

• Bridge the mission system team and air vehicle teams, ensuring both teams are in alignment.

• Own payload hardware integration end to end. EO/IR and imaging sensors, RF: payloads, gimbals, rangefinders, inertial and position sensing.

• Drive mission system selection through trade studies balancing performance,: SWaP, thermal, latency, and environmental robustness.

• Interface with regional customers and partners to align and deliver on end-user requirements.

• Characterize sensors on the bench and in flight: noise, latency, bias and drift, boresight stability, and failure modes

• Define and own payload interface control; mechanical mounting and alignment,: power and signal definitions, harnessing, vehicle bus integration, and time synchronization

What they're looking for

• VTOL, tail-sitter, or rotorcraft experience, and familiarity with the payload: environment they create (vibration, EMI, rotor wash)
• + years of Rust (or C++) in a Linux environment, plus tooling in Python;: demonstrated experience developing software for hardware
• Experience with rapid payload/sensor integration onto unmanned platforms, including flight test support
• Experience with gimbals, stabilized pointing, boresighting, and geo-referencing or targeting chains
• Experience in perception, localization, mapping, tracking, or guidance, and related system performance metrics
• Experience troubleshooting remotely deployed software on fielded hardware
• Familiarity with avionics buses (ARINC 429, MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet avionics) and time sync (PTP, PPS)
• Modeling and controls in MATLAB/Simulink; experience building SIL/HIL simulators